Vivek Chaudhary Filmmaker

Vivek Chaudhary is director, producer and writer whose films have been shown and awarded at prestigious film festivals like Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival among others. His work has been supported by top film grants like IDFA Bertha Fund, The French National Centre for Cinema (CNC), Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Fund and DMZ Docs Industry.

As a filmmaker, he is very interested in microcosms that shine light on bigger issues, by following intimate, personal stories of people, who with their quiet integrity face up to systemic injustices.

His debut documentary, a mid-length film titled Goonga Pehelwan (The Mute Wrestler), won the Indian National Film Award in the year 2015 and was screened at various film festivals all over the globe, picking up a dozen awards. The film’s continued activism was  instrumental in changing national sporting policies for deaf sportspersons in India.

His debut-feature documentary I, Poppy premiered at the Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, where it won the Best International Feature Award, qualifying the film for the Academy Awards. The film has then picked up the Busan Cinephile Award at Busan Intl Film Festival. The film continues its run across top-tier film festivals across the globe.

Vivek has written his first fiction feature, which has been developed with mentorship from the NFDC Screenwriters Lab. The film is currently in pre-production.